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If schools don’t overhaul discipline, ‘teachers will still be calling the police on our Black students’

The Hechinger Report

Federal grants , such as the “COPS in Schools” program, helped place thousands of officers in schools, with the number of school resource officers topping 46,000 in 2007-08. As of 2017-18, just about half of all public schools in the U.S. reported having at least one sworn law enforcement officer on campus.